Released June 2, 2008 Genre Country Label MCA Nashville | Format CD Single Length 2:56 | |
Writer(s) Leslie Satcher
Monty Holmes | ||
"Troubadour" is a song written by Leslie Satcher and Monty Holmes, and recorded by American country singer George Strait. It was released in June 2008 as the second single and title track from his album Troubadour. The song was the 86th chart single of his career. It has become his 79th Top Ten single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
Contents
The song is part of the track list for Now That's What I Call Country Volume 2.
Content
The song is a ballad in which the narrator reflects on his life as a troubadour, feeling that he is content with what he has accomplished ("I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song / I'll be an old troubadour when I'm gone").
Commercial performance
The song reached No. 7 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay for charts dated September 27, 2008. The song was certified Gold by the RIAA on July 15, 2011, and has sold 949,000 copies in the United States as of November 2016.
Music video
In August 2008, Strait released a music video for the song. Directed by Trey Fanjoy, and edited by Scott Mele, the song's video alternates between footage of him singing, and shots of archived photos from various points in his career. This is his first music video since 2006's "The Seashores of Old Mexico", which Fanjoy also directed.